Comments on: Rewriting update-alternatives in C

By: Reini Urban

Reini Urban — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:00:33 +0000

perl can also compile to native code. B::C

By: Quick news: dpkg, collab-maint, alioth and the future | apt-get install debian-wizard

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:37:29 +0000

[...] part and the great news: dpkg 1.15.8 (to be uploaded soon) will no longer need perl! After my changes to rewrite update-alternatives in C, Guillem recently pushed the rewrite of dpkg-divert/mksplit in C. Please test it out (binary [...]

By: Buxy

Buxy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:59:41 +0000

@Ewoud: thanks, fixed the link.

By: Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:45:02 +0000

Your dpkg roadmap link is broken. The M in roadmap should be uppercase as well.

By: Buxy

Buxy — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:41:26 +0000

@funktree: first the rewrite is already done so I won’t redo it a second time. Then I never used haskell and dpkg is only C+perl+sh and I don’t see a good reason to introduce another language in the mix.

By: funktree

funktree — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:39:55 +0000

hey, why don’t switch to haskell? it can describe complex operations and dataflows very succinctly, and it compiles to native code. a suggestion.

By: funktree

funktree — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:40:33 +0000

haskell